Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
TERESA OF AVILAEverything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
-
-
When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
TERESA OF AVILA -
Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
TERESA OF AVILA -
One always goes on as one begins.
TERESA OF AVILA -
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
TERESA OF AVILA -
I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
TERESA OF AVILA -
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
TERESA OF AVILA -
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
TERESA OF AVILA -
It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
TERESA OF AVILA -
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
TERESA OF AVILA -
We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
TERESA OF AVILA -
Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
TERESA OF AVILA -
God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
TERESA OF AVILA -
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
TERESA OF AVILA -
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
TERESA OF AVILA -
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
TERESA OF AVILA